Acrylic Pouring Paints
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- Durable, medium body acrylics for Fluid Art.
- Mix with our Flow Control Pouring Mediums for all techniques including Traditional, Bloom, Cloud and Pearl techniques.
- Lightfast strong colours. Low VOC.
Colour Chart
Acrylic Pouring Paints
- Non-fading colours with UV resistant, lightfast pigments and binders that are suitable for interior and exterior applications. Archival quality paints. (Scroll down to find information on the pigments that we use.)
- Flexible, pure acrylic paints with a good pigment loading that resist cracking in fluid art.
- All colours in the range now have the same viscosity (thickness) so the same mixing ratio will give the same result in all of them. All are thick enough for modern techniques such as blooms and cloud pours that require thicker starting paints.
- All our colours are now very stable during storage (only minor stirring is required). This was a significant improvement made during 2023.
In acrylic pouring art, these paints get mixed with our various Flow Control pouring mediums. Below is a summary of what you require for almost all fluid art techniques.
There are links to videos at the bottom of this page.
1. Traditional Pouring Techniques using our Original Flow Control, Acrylic Pouring Paints and an oily Cell Former
Our Acrylic Pouring Paints are usually thinned by mixing them with our “Original Flow Control” in a ratio of 1:1 by volume. When an even higher flow is required, e.g. for Dutch pours, do not add extra Original Flow Control but add a little water (always stir water in well).
You can also use our Bright Neon/UV Paints in the same way for Acrylic Pouring. Our Metallic Paints should be mixed with our Metallic Paint Flow Control to achieve the required flow.
Traditional techniques include flip cup pours, straight pours, dirty pours, puddle pours, ring pours, marble pours, dipping pours, open cup pours, kiss pours, string and chain pull pours, split cup pours, swipes, Dutch pours and others. There are numerous variations of these techniques, many of which have their own names. To form cells in most of these techniques, add a little Turbo Cell to some or all of the colours after mixing the paints with our Original Flow Control. Don’t stir much after adding the cell forming chemical, usually just a ‘swirl’ is optimum.
2. Bloom Techniques, Swipes and Dutch Pours using our Cell Activator Flow Control, Original Flow Control and Acrylic Pouring Paints without oily additives or residues
Newer fluid art techniques, that give cell formation without the use of oily additives, have been developed. In these techniques, cells and lacing are created by complex physical and chemical interactions between the various components used in the pour. In some techniques, a top layer of paint known as a “Cell Activator“ or “CA” is used.
In the Sheleeart Bloom technique a CA is prepared by mixing Australian Floetrol with Amsterdam Paint. A polyurethane varnish and clear base are blended to make a pouring medium. The required paints and mediums are expensive and often difficult to obtain.
Now you can obtain prolific cell formation and beautiful lacing using only Bastion Paint products. This is a superb development by Bastion Paint that has raised the bar in acrylic pouring art. All our products required for these techniques have been formulated to work together.
The top CA is prepared by mixing one or two of our Acrylic Pouring Paints with our Cell Activator Flow Control. A CA made this same way can also be used as a top paint layer in swipes and even in Dutch pours.
All other Acrylic Pouring Paints used in the pour are prepared by mixing them with our Original Flow Control. (For even more special effects, you can also use our Bright Neon Paints mixed with our Original Flow Control and our Metallic Paints mixed with our Metallic Paint Flow Control.)
Please see our product "Cell Activator Flow Control" for details regarding mixing and methods.
3. Cloud, Pearl and FX Techniques using our Cloud & Pearl Flow Control, Original Flow Control and Acrylic Pouring Paints without oily additives or residues
As with our Cell Activator Flow Control, our Cloud & Pearl Flow Control also creates effects through complex physical and chemical interactions without the use of any oily additives. It mimics the chemistry of some specific Satin Enamel paints that are well known for their cloud and pearl effects in fluid art.
Cloud Pours, Pearl Pours and other FX Pours can be done by thinning one or more of our Acrylic Pouring Paints with our Cloud & Pearl Flow Control. Thin the other Paints used in the pour with our Original Flow Control. Do not add Cloud & Pearl Flow Control to all the paints or to paints that will be used in the top layer of a pour.
In techniques using our Cloud & Pearl Flow Control you often need to be patient. Clouds, pearls and other effects do not form immediately. If they do, then you are probably using too much Cloud & Pearl Flow Control and the effects will become too strong as the pour dries. If that occurs you may need to reduce Cloud & Pearl Flow Control and use some Original Flow Control in that particular colour.
Please see our product "Cloud & Pearl Flow Control" for details regarding mixing and methods.
How to prevent crazing
See a short video showing how to prevent crazing by preventing art from drying too fast in low humidity conditions. Click here
A full list of points on how to prevent crazing is included in the document with all our acrylic pouring mixing ratios.
About the pigments we use in this paint range
Artists love to know what pigments are used in their paints. They generally research their pigments and know which are lightfast and which are not. They also know pigment colours and how they behave when mixed with other colours. Some of our Acrylic Pouring Paints are pure pigment paints while others are manufactured with pigment blends. We have selected only lightfast pigments that are suitable for archival quality art. A PDF called "Pigment Table" can be downloaded from this web page and it details the pigments we use in every colour. Simply by Googling the Colour Index number you will be able to read about each of the pigments we use.
- Cadmium based pigments are well known in many bright art paint colours including reds and yellows. We don't use any cadmium-based pigments but our bismuth vanadate (lemon yellow) and diketo-pyrrolo pyrrole red and orange pigments are excellent, far more environmentally friendly substitutes.
- All our oxide colours are earthy. Some paint manufactures call the Red Oxide colour Venetian Red and the Yellow Oxide colour Yellow Ochre. Chrome Green Oxide is a dull green and an extremely natural colour well suited to African landscape scenes.
- We only have two colours that tend towards being pastel shades: Cerise Pink and Blaze Orange.
- Quinacridone Maroon is deeper and bluer than Quinacridone Magenta which has a brighter hue.
- Ultramarine Blue is a bright blue with a red undertone while Phthalo Blue is a little less bright and has a green undertone.
- Ultramarine Violet is a bright violet while Dioxazine Violet has a deep, powerful violet colour.
Video Shorts (click to watch on YouTube)
All videos made by Traci Scerri using exclusively Bastion Paint products. Many of the pours contain our Metallic Paints as well as our Acrylic Pouring Paints
Traditional Techniques using only Original Flow Control as the pouring medium
Swipes using CA made with Cell Activator Flow Control
Blooms using CA made with Cell Activator Flow Control
Cloud Pours using Cloud & Pearl Flow Control
Pearl Pours using Cloud & Pearl Flow Control
Keep out of reach of children
All our products should be kept out of reach of children under 5 years and anybody who may tend to place items or liquids in their mouths should be supervised. Even packing can become a choking hazard.
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Titanium White
Carbon Black
Charcoal Grey (Hue)
Yellow Oxide
Azo Yellow
Bismuth Lemon Yellow
Red Oxide
Pyrrol Red
Cerise Pink
Ultramarine Blue
Phthalo Blue
Turquoise (Hue)
Chrome Green Oxide
Phthalo Green
Bright Lime Green
Orange Oxide
Blaze Orange
Pyrrol Orange
Red-Orange
Quinacridone Magenta
Quinacridone Maroon
Purple
Ultramarine Violet
Dioxazine Deep Violet
Dark Brown
Titanium White for Marbling
Maroon Oxide (for M&P)
Violet (Hue) for Marbling
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